Example sentences of "they have [been] there for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ?
2 Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria .
3 Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia .
4 They are there ; they have been there for years .
5 Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years .
6 No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding .
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